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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th November, 1869.

every person appointed Curator of Intestate Estates
shall forthwith provide security for such sum, and in
such manner and form, as the Governor in Council
shall from time to time direct, for the purposes
mentioned in the fortieth section of "The Intestate
Estates Act, 1865:" And whereas by an Order in
Council, bearing date the twenty-third day of No-
vember, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six,
His Excellency Sir George Grey, the Governor of the
Colony, with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony, did order and direct that the
security to be given by every person appointed to be
a Curator of Intestate Estates under the provisions
of "The Intestate Estates Act, 1865," should be a
joint and several bond in the form set forth in the
Schedule to the said Order in Council marked A.,
which should be entered into and executed by the
Curator or principal with two approved sureties for
the sum of two thousand pounds, subject to the con-
dition that no more than one thousand pounds should
be recoverable from each of the persons appointed
sureties, or in the usual form of guarantees given by
Insurance Companies to Government, for the sum of
one thousand pounds, together with a personal bond
in the form set forth in the Schedule to the said
Order in Council marked B. for the like sum of two
thousand pounds, and one surety in the sum of one
thousand pounds:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in exercise and in pur-
suance of the power and authority vested in me by
the said "Intestate Estates Amendment Act, 1869,"
do hereby, by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the Colony, direct that hence-
forth every person appointed Curator of Intestate
Estates shall provide security in the manner and form
prescribed by the said recited Order in Council, or
by the guarantee of an approved Insurance Company
in the usual form of guarantees given by Insurance
Companies to Government alone without personal
bond, and that the amount of such security shall be
the amount fixed by the Governor in Council in
respect of such Curator specially, and if no such
amount shall have been so fixed, then the amount
fixed in and by the said Order in Council, or where a
guarantee of an Insurance Company is given alone,
the amount of such security shall be the amount so
fixed specially as aforesaid; and if no such amount
shall have been so fixed, then two thousand pounds.

WILLIAM FOX,
Presiding.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and autho-
rity in this behalf enabling me, I, Sir George
Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that Sittings of
the District Court of the Otago Gold Fields,
additional to those already appointed, shall be held
as follows:-

In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Lawrence,
on the second Tuesday in February next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Naseby, on
the second Wednesday in March next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Clyde, on
the Monday next after the second Wednesday
in March next.
In the Resident Magistrate's Court at Queenstown,
on the Monday second after the second Wednes-
day in March next.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this thirteenth day of Novem-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine.

W. GISBORNE.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

HARVEY THOMSON, Esq.,

to be Registration and Returning Officer for the
election of Members of the House of Representatives
for the Districts of Invercargill and Mataura, and
Provincial Returning Officer for the Districts of
Invercargill, Roslyn, and Waihopai, in the Province
of Southland, vice John Hare, Esq., resigned.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th November, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

HARVEY THOMSON, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of Invercargill, as
the same is defined in Proclamation of 16th July,
1863, and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 31,
of 22nd July, 1863, vice John Hare, Esq., resigned.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 26th November 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

HENRY JOHN ABEL, Esq.,

to be Clerk at Lawrence of the District Court of the
Otago Gold Fields, vice J. Borton, Esq., resigned.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 26th November, 1869.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

HARVEY THOMSON, Esq.,

to be Clerk to the Bench at Invercargill, vice John
Hare, Esq., transferred to Napier.

W. GISBORNE.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 26th November, 1869.

NOTICE is hereby given, that His Excellency the
Governor has been pleased to appoint the
under-mentioned Post Office to be a Money Order
and Savings Bank Office for the transaction of
Money Order and Savings Bank business, from the
1st of January, 1870:-

SWITZERS, Province of Otago.
By order.

G. ELIOTT ELIOTT,
Secretary.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 26th November, 1869.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following name of an Officiating Minister,
within the meaning of the said Act, is published for
general information:-

Free Church of Scotland.
The Rev. JOHN WILSON, M.A.

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages in New Zealand, do hereby